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• Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Heart, Needs, Embrace

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• But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Reading, Men

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.71, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Struggle, Might, Desperate

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Way, Life Is, Questioning

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “Globalization: The Human Consequences”, p.8, John Wiley & Sons

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• Because Al-Qaeda has been a non-state centered organisation, many of these scenarios do not exactly apply. These are not wars between states. And yet, it seems to me that we make a mistake if we accept the view that states are fighting terrorism, since we have abundant evidence for accepting the idea of state terrorism, and what is most urgent is to track and expose how state terrorism operates under the rubric of "democracy."

  Judith Butler

  Mistake, War, Fighting

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• his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Pain, Feelings, Desire

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• It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Girl, Years, Language

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• Sometimes one makes a distinction between urgency and importance. And while disasters are urgent, the basically most important thing is education. And that's what gives it ultimately urgency too, because unless you do it now, this important thing gets again and again postponed.

  Amartya Sen

  Giving, Important, Sometimes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the right way to do this is just to step up and do it, so I actually think we'll see more of that over the next coming weeks, because I think they'll say, "We'd like to be good for business and quiet on politics, but this is too urgent, it is too much of a key crisis in who we are going to become as Americans. We can risk too much, and so we have to step forward." And I think you will see more and more people stepping forward, like Howard Schultz, Steve Case and other folks, in order to try to make a difference in this [Donald Trump] election.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Differences, Keys

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

  Wole Soyinka

  World, Problem, Used

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.

  George Saunders

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.

  David Bohm

  Essence, Live For Today, Growing

  David Bohm (2005). “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”, p.2, Routledge

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• I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Breakup

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• Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.

  James Surowiecki

  Numbers, Tasks, Needs

  "Calculating Campaigns". www.newyorker.com. September 24, 2012.

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• By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Creating, People

  "The Rachel Maddow Show" with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. March 24, 2009.

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• I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Writing, People, Environmental

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• We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

  Wendell Berry

  Time, Learning, Garden

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• Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

  Havelock Ellis

  Population, Tasks, Decrease

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.126, Elsevier

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• I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.

  Umberto Eco

  Fall, Writing, Years

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• Imagine the situation between Israel and Palestine. It's such a big mess. You can be on one side or the other. But what's clear is that there's an urgent need for a solution there and that's been dragging on for so long.

  Javier Bardem

  Israel, Long, Needs

  "Berlin 2012: Javier Bardem Talks About Alvaro Longoria's 'Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony' (Q&A)". Interview with Pamela Rolfe, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 15, 2012.

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• If you want, you can try and get a broader perspective, or you can find people who are absolutely out of their minds, or find people that are doing incredibly complex and interesting and urgent journalism. And the same goes for our show. It's a prism into people's own ideologies, when they watch our program. This is just our take.

  Jon Stewart

  Perspective, People, Interesting

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Winning, Years, People

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• What we are seeing in America is the creaky old age of an eighteenth-century settlement, deemed at the time to be the new flowering of humankind-come-of-age (the 'Enlightenment') and so deemed to be above revision. At this point the urgent need is for prayer and prophecy.

  N. T. Wright

  Prayer, America, Age

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• Very urgent measures need to be taken, and without much delay, in dealing with the ongoing destruction of the environment.

  Noam Chomsky

  Taken, Delay, Needs

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Taken, Florida, Environmental

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